hat these Gipsy children, who are trained up to
a vagabond life, may have a chance of learning something better. And
evidently, from Mr. Smith's experience, there is no hostility to such a
measure as he wishes to have made law among the Gipsies themselves."

Owing to my letters, papers, articles and paragraphs, and efforts in
other directions during the last several months, the Gipsy subject might
now be fairly considered to have made good headway, consequently the
proprietor of the _Illustrated London News_, without any difficulty, was
induced--in fact, with pleasure--to have a series of sketches of Gipsy
life in his journal, the first appearing November 29th, connected with
which was the following notice, and in which he says:--"Our
illustrations, from a sketch taken by one of our artists in the
neighbourhood of Latimer Road, Notting Hill, which is not far from
Wormwood Scrubs, show the habits of living folk who are to be found as
well in the outskirts of London, where there are many chances of picking
up a stray bit of irregular gain, as in more rural parts of the country.
The figure of a gentleman introduced into this sketch, who appears to be
conversing with the Gipsies in their waggon encampment, is that of Mr.
George Smith, of Coalville, Leicester, the well-known benevolent promoter
of social reform and legislative protection for the long-neglected class
of people employed on canal-barges, whose families, often living on board
these vessels, are sadly in want of domestic comfort and of education for
the children." The editor also inserted my Congress paper fully. The
following week another sketch of Gipsy life appeared in the same journal,
connected with which were the following remarks:--"Another sketch of the
wild and squalid habits of life still retained by vagrant parties or
clans of this singular race of people, often met with in the
neighbourhood of suburban villages and other places around London, will
be found in our journal. We may again direct the reader's attention to
the account of them which was contributed by Mr. George Smith, of
Coalville, Leicester, to the late Social Science Congress at Manchester,
and which was reprinted in our last week's publication. That well-known
advocate of social reform and legal protection for the neglected vagrant
classes of our population reckons the total number of Gipsies in this
country at three or four thousand men and women and ten thousand
children. He is no